Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.14-rc1,6.2-rc5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-5425109
  • published 17 Apr 2023
  • disclosed 12 Jan 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.2-rc5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the nfsd4_ssc_setup_dul() function in fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c. This could allow an attacker to crash the system or it may lead to a kernel information leak.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.1 high
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SUSE

7 high
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Red Hat

7.8 high